CNN's Borger: Obama 'Aligned with So-Called Liberal Leaders in the Dem
September 1st, 2009 8:16 PM
Today on The Situation Room, CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger discussed President Obama's rapidly declining approval ratings. A question was posed by host Suzanne Malveaux:MALVEAUX: What does it mean, Gloria, for the president to be losing out on these Independents? GLORIA BORGER, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST: I think it's a real possible for him. Remember that President Obama won the…
WaPo's Shales: 'Conservatives Dominate the Broadcast and Cable Media I
September 1st, 2009 5:42 PM
Washington Post television critic Tom Shales conducts an online discussion on Tuesdays. Today's session featured this exchange:Dunn Loring, Va.: Re your column disparaging Liz Cheney's style, what was the last column you wrote so harshly criticizing a liberal pundit?Tom Shales: Ah yes, it's our dear old Dunn Loringite. Dunn Loringer. Whatever. You have an ideological axe to grind and it's…
WaPo Style Critic Gushes Over Kennedys - Hammers John Roberts' Family
September 1st, 2009 12:58 PM
It’s not just liberal policy and charismatic personalities that the liberal media find alluring about the Kennedy clan, but also its decidedly upper-crust fashion sense. In Sunday’s Washington Post, fashion reporter Robin Givhan waxed eloquent about the “look of rich tradition” the patrician Kennedy clan brought to their oft-publicly photographed wardrobe. Yet four years ago, Givhan derided as “…
Little Wonder AARP's Losing Members
September 1st, 2009 12:15 AM
AARP the Magazine boasts a circulation that's seven times greater than that of Time. For the first half of this year, AARP the Magazine's circulation averaged more than 24 million copies.AARP claims it's a "nonpartisan organization," an assertion increasingly challenged by senior citizens. The magazine's September-October issue may give members more evidence for that conclusion. It carries a…
AP Coverage of Ford-UAW Negotiations Ignores Union's Ownership Interes
August 31st, 2009 11:45 PM
Ford and the United Auto Workers are set to begin new contract talks under a set of circumstances radically different from any previously faced by either party. There is the "minor" matter of the union's ownership stakes in General Motors and Chrysler that arose in the wake of those two companies' government-engineered bankruptcy filings, accomplished with more than a little rule-bending by the…
Media Virtually Silent About $10 Billion Union Health Care Subsidy Bui
August 31st, 2009 4:25 PM
Some of us have been wondering how viable the Voluntary Employee Benefit Arrangements (VEBAs) set up by the United Auto Workers for its auto industry employees really are. This is of particular concern at the VEBAs tied in to General Motors and Chrysler. What happens to the employer stock these VEBAs own will heavily influence whether they have the money to pay promised benefits. The answer to…
Fox's Wallace Highlights NYT's Kennedy v Helms Obit Contrast
August 31st, 2009 1:00 PM
On the August 30 Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace seemed to pick up on Clay Waters' NewsBusters item, earlier posted at TimesWatch, pointing out the blatant double standard between the New York Times obituary for conservative Republican Senator Jesse Helms and that of liberal Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy.Near the end of Sunday's show, Wallace read from the first paragraph from each obituary…
Sheehan More Consistent Than Media: She Protests Bush and Obama, Media
August 31st, 2009 11:14 AM
On a Sunday evening in August four summers ago the NBC Nightly News devoted its “In Depth” segment to how Cindy Sheehan was “single-handedly bringing the Iraq debate to Mr. Bush’s doorstep” with her protest in Crawford, Texas. But Sunday night this year, after Sheehan departed Martha's Vineyard without earning any network media coverage as President Barack Obama's wrapped up his vacation there,…
Boston Globe: Now That Ted's Out of the Way, Hurry Up With That Cape C
August 30th, 2009 8:58 PM
On the very day Ted Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery near his two brothers, a Boston Globe editorial argued to undo part of his legacy. The pertinent portion of Mr. Kennedy's legacy has to do with his strident opposition, despite a career of enthusiastically imposing environmental initiatives and costs on others, to the building of a wind farm on Cape Cod (the graphic at top…
AP Robert Schindler Obit Misrepresents Terri Schiavo Autopsy Results
August 30th, 2009 9:29 AM
Robert Schindler, father of Terri Schindler Schiavo, has passed away. Condolences to his courageous family and friends. Associated Press writer Kelli Kennedy's coverage of Mr. Schindler's death, and her recounting of the Terri Schiavo story, is a mixed bag. On the one hand, she writes that "the feeding tube that had nourished her for years was removed according to her husband's wishes." I would…
Albright: Washington Times Makes Her 'Crazy', but Insists Press Must P
August 29th, 2009 7:42 AM
It's no secret the print newspaper industry is struggling. It's become all too common to hear that papers, like the Christian Science Monitor or the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, have ceased publishing a print edition and gone completely online. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright addressed this challenge and its impact on a government at the Aspen Institute's Forum on Communications and…
MSNBC's Guthrie Contrasts Obama and Reagan, Revisionism Ensues
August 28th, 2009 4:18 PM
Savannah Guthrie is apparently very smart. Guthrie was a member of the prestigious Order of the Coif (which has nothing to do with promoting good scalp health, nor with seventeenth-century headwear) while earning a J.D. from Georgetown Law, highlight her ability to learn dull and boring things very quickly.Lost among the dusty tomes of Georgetown, however, was the fact that Ronald Reagan was a…
